Issues using ivy:publish task

Question

I\'m trying to use ivy:publish to publish a jar that I\'ve built to the .ivy repository, but I\'m getting an error. I\'m pretty sure I\'m not using it corre

Answer 1

You've forgotten a publications section in your ivy file.

<ivy-module version="2.0">
    <info organisation="someorganisation" module="commonlib"/>

    <publications>
        <artifact name="commonlib" type="jar"/>
    </publications>

    <dependencies>  
        <dependency org="com.thoughtworks.xstream" name="xstream" rev="1.3.1" transitive="false"/>
        <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-api" rev="1.6.1" transitive="false"/>
        <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-jdk14" rev="1.6.1" transitive="false"/>
        <dependency org="joda-time" name="joda-time" rev="1.6.2" transitive="false"/>
    </dependencies>    
</ivy-module>

The status and revision (pubrevision) fields can be specified by the publish task as follows:

   <ivy:publish resolver="${publish.resolver}" pubrevision="${publish.revision}" status="${publish.status}">
        <artifacts pattern="${build.dir}/[organisation]-[artifact].[ext]"/>
    </ivy:publish>

Note 1:

It would be simpler to generate the jar file without the revision number in the name. Just let ivy's artifact pattern pick up the jar file.

Note 2:

You will require an ivy resolve at some stage in your build, otherwise the ivy file doesn't get processed.